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About Jesus - Steve (Stephen) Sweetman Seduced
By A National Prostitute Nahum
3:4, in the Christian Standard Bible portrays Nineveh, the capital city of the ancient empire of "Because of the
continual prostitution of the prostitute [Nineveh], the attractive mistress of sorcery, who treats nations and clans
like merchandise by her prostitution and sorcery," The portrayal of Nineveh, and thus
Assyria, as a seductive prostitute is historically accurate.
By lifting up its skirt of wealth and power, it seduced the
nations. So, what you are
about to read may appear overly sexual and dramatic, but it is an
accurate Biblical portrayal of Assyrian aggression as it conquers the nations. A young man walks down a
street. He glances down an
alleyway and is suddenly captivated by a seductive young lady lifting up
her miniskirt. Immediately,
the power of her seductive nakedness consumes him.
Without giving it a second thought, he is aroused and gives into
his lust. While lying in her
bed in a state of erotic ecstasy, she pulls out a knife from
beneath her pillow and stabs him in the stomach.
After pushing his lifeless, still aroused naked body to the
floor, she steals his money and credit cards. Metaphorically
speaking, this seductive prostitute was Assyria. Can a similar national
prostitute exist today? China, one of the world's wealthiest nations, and a longstanding enemy of the
West, has been arousing western nations with its economic seduction
for years. It has lifted its
economic skirt for all to see, and the West has been captivated.
Economically speaking, we have jumped into bed with China, and it's next to impossible to escape without committing economic
suicide. China
is now capable of stabbing us in the economic stomach, all because of
our immoral, hedonistic, lust of consumption.
Russia, although struggling in recent years, has become the second largest oil
producer in the world. It
feeds western Europe with forty percent of its oil and natural gas.
Now, in the midst of Russian aggression into Ukraine, western Europe is fearing the Russian knife severing the pipeline.
One thing we learn from
history is that we learn nothing from history, and that includes the
history found in the prophecy of Nahum.
Sleeping with the enemy never ends nice.
Assyria eventually fell
to Babylon
in 612 BC as an act of divine judgment on her prostitution.
God lifted "Woe to the city of blood
... I will lift your skirts
over your face and display your nakedness to nations
..." Here's the historical
lesson we have failed to learn from the prophetic Book of Nahum.
National prostitution is nothing new, but woe to the national
prostitute that seduces, and woe to the lust-filled nations captivated
by its seduction. Both fall
in an act of divine judgment.
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